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If you don’t think our generation uses MacGyver as a verb, the GenX Stories gang will prove you wrong. How? Because we (ironically) recorded this technology themed episode using Eve’s plan D, Mercury retrograde headphone mic.  No, we’re not kidding. 

From the truth about old school TV clickers, to long telephone cord strategies, to why we absolutely refuse to use TikTok now (even though we love Steve Nicks), this funny chat about the innovations that made us will take you wayyyy back. 

Or at least make you turn your phone off and on again to fix it.   

Episode Links

• Is mercury retrograde?
• MacGyver as a verb
• Pew generations & tech trends
• The history of the remote control
• A Zenith clicker
• A brief history of the walkman 
• Why vinyl is making a comeback in 2020
• Phones (and cords) of the 80s
• Pagers were hip in 1985 
• Evolution of the cell phone
• Lori’s first cell phone
• Gordon Gecko's phone/brick in the 1987 movie, Wall Street
• Ellen asking younger people to use old tech
• Thomas Guides
• How does MapQuest work? 
• The Strand bookstore in NYC 
• Dreams Challenge  TikTok guy 
• Chris's Pug MRI that went viral by Andy Richter

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Boo!  It’s a Monster Mash of spooky subjects on this week’s special Halloween episode of GenX Stories. The gang dives right in with haunted houses, fuzzy blue dog costumes and of course, candy corn!  If that’s not creepy enough, check out the bite size versus full size candy debate, hear stories of shooting 8 lb pumpkins down 53rd street (and over to NJ), and get our grown-up take on 2020’s scary impact on Halloween.

Oh and for those wondering if passing out candy is still an option this year, Chris suggests a trebuchet or a t-shirt cannon to shoot candy from your doorstep. 

Either way, we say have fun, buy all the candies 50% off and don’t forget to ditch all your hidden wrappers

Episode Links

• Mike Pence pumpkin meme
• Mercedes Ruhl in Married to the Mob
• Halloween masks of the 70’s and 80’s
• Halloween family photo
• Etsy Halloween tube
• Cincinnati dad created a Halloween chute 
• Krispy Kreme and Lowes costume drive-by
• What IS a trebuchet?
• Who created the t-shirt cannon?
• OPI’s Stay off the Lawn nail color 
• Songs of the Humpback whale that chris says played at level 10 will solve your neighbors loud music issue

Other Halloween Links

• CDC Trick or treating guidelines
• GenX's favorite candies
• Halloween 2020 website

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We’ll go ahead and say it - this celebrity crushes episode may be the funniest we’ve ever produced. But prepare yourself: Courtney was ON FIRE. 

This week, we admit to our youthful celebrity obsessions (Jake - call me!), pre and post pubescent infatuations, and even name a few of our current hall passes.  Along the way, there are bad boys, adorkable girls, Mary Tyler Moore (wait, what?) historical hotties, and finding out how to actually pronounce Elwes.  There may even be a political passion or two, but we know that Rep Henry Waxman isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. OH! And we do a ton of callouts from our kick-ass FB group crew, who helped us pick this topic. (thanks guys!)

Make sure to listen until the end for some snort-your-coffee-out-of-your nose zingers. Seriously - it’s worth it.

Episode Links

• That last Jake Ryan scene in Sixteen Candles (like we NEED to remind you)
• Jake Ryan turned 60 this year
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song
• When MTM told a dirty joke on Letterman
• How to pronounce The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes
• The crushable Former CA Rep Henry Waxman

Other fun links

• Embarrassing 80’s celebrity crushes
• Weird genX celebrity crushes
• Rabbit hole worthy Pinterest board with GenX bad Boys & Hotties

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“What's wrong with you?” Who else heard that growing up? This week the gang discusses our hopes and dreams for who or what we would become, how our parents reacted to leaving stable jobs (or not entering into them at all), ways we navigated career expectations, and what really happened.

From dreams of writing for the NY Times and being the first woman president, to following your heart from the beginning, each of us shares the non traditional path we took to get to where we are today.

So what’s next? In true GenX fashion, most of us have decided to “buy the ticket and take the ride” and not worry tooooo much about the future (Cuz we can’t retire until 67 anyway!)

Our advice?  “Take the leap and the net will appear".

Episode Links

• Party Goats
• Retiring at age 67 
• 1978 song by The Who
• Hunter S.Thompson: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
• GenX: The forgotten middle child

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Today’s show was recorded on September 20th, just 2 days after the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The original plan was just add a few minutes to our previously recorded Rocking the Vote episode, but not with this gang.  

We had such a great chat about RBG that deserved its very own episode. Hear about what she meant to us as GenXers, her legacy moving forward, plus a few fun little stories. Want to know why RBG fell asleep during the state of the union or why she learned Swedish? Ya gotta listen to find out. 

While we usually drop episodes every 2 weeks, we are creating a few off-cycle, “bonus” episodes this season, both cuz things are moving really fast in our world, and we keep recording too much cool shit not to share. So stay tuned for more epic goodies to come this fall, when we all need it the most.

Episode Links

• RBG Obituary 
• First women to lie in state 
• What we can learn from Ginsburg’s friendship with Antonin Scalia 
• The Supreme Court case RBG won about a widower's death benefits 
• How Sweden influenced RBG 
• RBG not being 100% sober at the state of the union
• The senate’s change to the “Nuclear option” for supreme court confirmation 
• Senate confirms 200th Trump judicial nominee 
• 10 ways to honor RBG's legacy now

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In this episode we dive deep into our first voting experience, our next one and everything in between. Having taped this initial episode several weeks before RBG passed, we also recorded a new intro to touch on how her loss changes everything (plus look for a special bonus off-cycle episode all about RBG next week!)

For this group of podcasters, it’s clear that our politics have not changed but our passion has grown deeper. (plus doesn’t it kick ass to get that damn sticker?). This week, we reminded ourselves of the importance of our vote in this current election, as well as discussed women in politics, RBG (wahhhhhhh!), why election day is the 2nd Tuesday in November, what presidents are like really like IRL, Obama, and the state of our world.

“Decisions are made by those who show up” may be a quote from The West Wing (Thanks Eve, you SorkinFreak), but it’s also a reminder that we need to vote like our lives depend on it. Because it really does.

Here are a few voting tips regardless of party:

• Make and plan and vote early
• If you are mailing your ballot, put two stamps on the ballot
• Use the same signature you used on your driver's license as that is the method of validation

Episode Links

• West Wing "Rock the vote" clip
• Rock the Vote
• Vote 411
• Vote.org
• About the 19th Amendment
• About the 20th Amendment
• Info about Willie Horton
• Dukakis and the tank
• Clinton playing sax on Arsenio
• How Ruth became the Notorious RBG
• A RBG meme about who should replace her
• Frontline piece about Biden v Trump 

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In this episode we delve into the art of the mixtape and its cultural place in our lives. Co-host Courtney may have gone a little overboard with, “the mixtape were musical vignettes to tell the stories of our lives”, but okay Court! We’re rolling with it.

As for the rest of us, Eve, Lori and Chris saw the mixtape as a magical way to express our musical stylings back in the day, whether we were making the tape for ourselves or for that special someone.  Take a journey with us as we remember the art, memories, and dare we say, replacement of the mixtape now (hint: it’s not what you think.). 

OH! And we made a GenX Stories mixtape on Spotify just for you. Take a listen!

Episode Links

• YouTube Gen Z twins listening to “In the air tonight” for the first time
• The lost art of the Mixtape
• Are tapes coming back? 
• That Outfield song that Chris hummed terribly
• Urban Dictionary definition of Mixtape
• Chris’s college mixtape covers
• Happy hour guest Melinda's 1987/88 looooooooove Mixtape
• Eve's Mixtape/CD
• GenX Stories collaborative Mixtape on Spotify
• Mixtape Memes

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You’re not hearing or seeing things -  we changed things up a bit for season 2 of GenX Stories. Every Wednesday, Eve is going to have fun & frank conversations about everything GenX with a brand new gang of kick-ass co-hosts - Lori, Chris and Courtney.

In this episode we dig into what being GenX means to each of us knowing how pivotal the 80’s were for music, fashion, crisis and more. We'll also discuss our generation’s creativity & innovation, Halloween candy pillowcase logistics and why Chris thinks that sequins and the SpaceX Dragon capsule don’t mix.

Some of the topics we are psyched to explore for season 2 include: the election, the art of mixtapes, celebrity crushes and Inauguration 2021 (well, if we haven't moved to New Zealand by then).

Fun Episode links

• Meet our new hosts
• Check out Tremor, the SpaceX sequined zero-g dinosaur
• See Chris’ pug’s MRI on Twitter

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GenX Stories is a podcast about how the so-called “Lost Generation” found itself at midlife. Join hosts Eve, Lori, Chris & Courtney every other Wednesday for a fun and frank discussion about what made us and what’s next.

We all have a GenX story. What’s yours?

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On today’s bonus episode, we’re talking all about weed and wine. We chatted with Elana Frankel of Indigo and Haze about being a cannabis entrepreneur, the evolution of cannabis for health and wellness, and cannabis and GenX. Plus, we discuss our own experiences with cannabis and wine -- then and now.

A bit of news....Sacha will be stepping back as the regular co-host of the GenX Stories podcast in order to focus on her business and writing, BUT stay tuned for a set of new co-hosts in season two, dropping Wed. Aug 26th!

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